Take 4 shows it the best as it has to flips its head back while latched on. That big boy would have definitely had a snack if any part of it's body other than head could move.
I recently googled how much stunt men make, after watching Fall Guy. Average is around $60k-80k per year. The top paid guy was like 150k-200k. That seems awfully small for the bulk of the film industry bank roll.
Movie budgets are super wasteful with spending but not for prearranged stunt people I guess.
That's why I am happy to be in this era. Stuff like this won't fly on production set without some animal protection agency coming down hard on them, plus stuntmen union & insurance companies would say this is too dangerous. Yeah laws and regulations were paid by blood. Look up vic marrow helicopter incident. Horrid!
They MUST have replaced the last croc, from attempt 2 - 4 he was up and ready to bite. Actually, none of the croc in attempt 5 move their front legs, they seem pinned down.
Not was not just a normal but risky stunt, that was outright stupid, dangerous and unnecessary.
I'm pretty sure there were other ways than risking the life of that man.
I just assumed there'd be a team of wranglers there to get him out but it was just him in there with them on every failed attempt